Regional approaches to mortuary analysis /

In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Beck, Lane A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, [1995]
Series:Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • On mortuary analysis-with special reference to the Saxe-Binford research program / James Brown
  • Ten years after-Megaliths, mortuary practices, and the territorial model / Robert Chapman
  • Mortuary behavior, labor organization, and social rank / Kathryn Maurer Trinkaus
  • Diachronic regional social dynamics : mortuary sites in the Illinois valley/American bottom region / Douglas K. Charles
  • Landscapes and mortuary practices : a case for regional perspectives / Lynne Goldstein
  • Mortuary custom in the Bronze age of southeastern Hungary : diachronic and synchronic perspectives / John M. O'Shea
  • Kingdom and community in early Anglo-Saxon eastern England / Genevieve Fisher
  • Regional cults and ethnic boundaries in 'southern Hopewell' / Lane Anderson Beck
  • Regional approaches to the investigation of past human biocultural structure / Lyle W. Konigsberg and Jane E. Buikstra
  • An osteological perspective on prehistoric warfare / George R. Milner
  • Regional perspectives on mortuary analysis / Clark Spencer Larsen.